Filling the Silence With the Voice of Youth
Charles IsherwoodJune 18, 2012: The scrabbling of iguanas across a metal roof, the squawk of a parrot and other colorful noises are resounding throughout the Claire Tow Theater, the handsome new auditorium built atop Lincoln Center Theater’s Broadway home, the Vivian Beaumont Theater. But the truly exotic note in the jungle symphony of Greg Pierce’s play “Slowgirl” is the adrenaline chatter of the 17-year-old American girl who finds herself in the alien environment of rural Costa Rica. Her anxious, endless nattering reverberates like a constant klaxon horn amid the silence inhabited by her uncle, who has retreated from the world to live in solitude with nature.
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